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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

But because paid traffic is fundamentally a bidding war, its important that you have a differentiated ability to monetize customers better than other people who are bidding for the same traffic. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Four myths about the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated. Myth: Lean Startups replace vision with data or customer feedback. Myth: Lean Startups replace vision with data or customer feedback.

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Lessons Learned: Three freemium strategies

Startup Lessons Learned

Here the key is for your free customers to get value from the site that is greater than the costs they perceive by the fact that youre selling access to them. What differentiates this model from "free serves paid" is that the free users dont need to consciously do anything special to be valuable.

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Lessons Learned: You buy virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

Identity value - This is the strongest source of value of all, and its a little tricky to differentiate from the preceding two sources. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo (and a call for he.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively.

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Lean Startup webcast post-game

Startup Lessons Learned

Related articles by Zemanta Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps (4cloudcomputing.blogspot.com) The Lean Startup workshop coming soon (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com) The Lean Startup Talk From Web 2.0 The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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